Urban Experiments and the Strange Epistemology of Adaptation James Evans, University of Manchester.

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Urban Experiments and the Strange Epistemology of Adaptation James Evans, University of Manchester

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- Cities are chief perpetrators (50% of population, 75% energy use and 80% C emissions…) - Cities are chief victims - Cities are ideal test sites for solutions - Cities are new state spaces, that havent received much attention from and environmental perspective… (Hodson and Marvin, 2009, p. 198) Storyline: urban adaptation is key

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Framing urban adaptation Resilience... Engineering versus Ecological Adaptive capacity 2 nd law of thermodynamics Cities as Social-Ecological Systems the amount of disturbance that an ecosystem could withstand without changing self-organized processes and structures return time to a stable state following a perturbation

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An example: north desert village Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP-LTER) North Desert Village experimental suburb Experimental study of interactions between people and their ecological environment at the neighbourhood scale Manipulating vegetation types and irrigation methods Exploring how landscape interactions affect human perceptions and behaviours

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Adaptive experimentation A method that allows humans to adapt inside the experiment and alter its parameters Experimenting in situ produces more accurate scientific models (Cook et al. 2004, 467) Feedbacks between resident preferences and ecology used to drive management.